Local railroads

[trainfan1221]

What kind, if any, of rail line goes through your town? Mine is the NJT
Bergen/Main line. It connects with the southern tier route which, for those of you familiar, means little if any freights. I have to travel about ten miles to see any real trains. Is anyone fortunate enough to have an active mainline that isn`t all commuter trains nearby?

[Anonymous]

I live at the end of the line. Halifax is the most eastern terminus for CN Intermodal and Via. Dartmouth has a refinery and Auto port as well as a Gypsum dock. Though I don't get to see much of the trains I do see a lot of Container and Gypsum ships as well as Auto Carriers come and go. The Intermodal forms up in Farview and the Via departs from the South End.

[Anonymous]

Mine is the Grand Rapids Eastern/ Mid-Michigan/ XConrail. It hooks up with CSX downtown.

[Anonymous]

Norfolk Southern Cement Secondary.

P.S. The Bergen Line is about the only NJT line I've never rode on.

[joseph2]

CSX runs one train a day into Decatur,Indiana.Traffic is mainly covered hoppers and tank cars but there are interesting locomotives including road slugs.Back in 1970 the EL ran 15 trains a day,the PC had four and the N&W two a day.

[Anonymous]

i live in Idaho and the line thats runs through here. its called Idaho Northern & Pacific
they wont give there rights th athearn or kato or ect..... called there offices and they said plainly they just wont, oh well just do em my self

[Jetrock]

Currently, the rail-borne stuff in downtown Sacramento includes the Union Pacific (running over former SP and WP track), RT Metro Light Rail (running over former SP, SN and PG&E track, as well as its own private right-of-way) and the Sacramento Southern Railroad (which is primarily a tourist line run by CSRM, but also carries freight, running on three miles of former SP track, but will go south to Hood REAL SOON NOW!)

[Hawks05]

used to have a ton of CNW and UP freight trains go through. now we're down to probably 3-6 trains a day, all UP, and i hate UP.

the only time i go out and get to take pictures is when i go to shows with my friend and thats like 40-50 miles away in Newport Minnesota. its like the CP and BNSF mainlines.

[Anonymous]

Greetings,

Living just south of Tomball Tx I have seen many interesting roads come by.

The old FW&D and CRIP in the good ole days. Burlington Northern and The Rock was always good train watching.

Now its BNSF but at least 16-20 trains a day.

Even saw a MRL SD40-2 not to long ago.

Mark in Texas

[CP5415]

Right now I have Canadian Pacific & Canadian National through town. [:)]
I have to cross the Canadian Pacific to get to work! DARN!!! [;)]

Gordon

[n2mopac]

I guess I am fortunate. I live on a UP main, former MoPac Sedalia Sub. This one of two parallel mains running from Kansas City to St. Louis in Missouri. This line runs only west-bound freight traffic for UP, mostly empty coal drags headding back to Wyoming to refill, double stack traffic, auto trains, an a bonus Amtrack which runs one train each direction between KC and StL daily. I am also fortunate to have a MOW siding and one local industry, an LPG distributor which receives three or four tankers per week in the winter, on per week the rest of the year. Not bad for a town of only 450, eh?
Ron

[orsonroy]

The Illinois Central's Iowa Division goes through town (CN? Who's that?), and the C&NW (now Borg) dead ends here too (we maybe see one train a week from them). A shortline, Illinois Railnet, has trackage rights and some of it's own track in town too, and they run as needed.

Sort of sad, considering there used to be seven roads and one trolley line here in the good old days...

[AggroJones]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jetrock

Currently, the rail-borne stuff in downtown Sacramento includes the Union Pacific (running over former SP and WP track), RT Metro Light Rail (running over former SP, SN and PG&E track, as well as its own private right-of-way) and the Sacramento Southern Railroad (which is primarily a tourist line run by CSRM, but also carries freight, running on three miles of former SP track, but will go south to Hood REAL SOON NOW!)

[#ditto] I live near the same city as Jetrock.

PS-- Jetrock, have you seen the new RT lightrail cars? Looks like they're from the future.

[Anonymous]

The UP runs daily coal trains, and often comes to town to service the local Flour mill, or run covered hoppers through town The tracks are about a block and a half from here. The BNSF also runs through town, crossing about a block from here, but view is obstructed by other houses. Being a BNSF fan they do service a feed pellet plant [:D]...but not real often. [:(]

Abilene Kansas

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hawks05

used to have a ton of CNW and UP freight trains go through. now we're down to probably 3-6 trains a day, all UP, and i hate UP.

the only time i go out and get to take pictures is when i go to shows with my friend and thats like 40-50 miles away in Newport Minnesota. its like the CP and BNSF mainlines.

You hate UP???? How can you? Oh well, you're probably a BNSF fan, and since I am a UP fan, I can't talk to you anymore.[:-^] If you'll excuse me, I must go worship UP[bow][bow][bow][bow][bow][:)][:D].

The nearest rails to my house are those of the new Gold Line from Los Angeles to eastern Pasadena. This used to be the AT&SF's Pasadena Subdivision. We traded the Pasadena Subdivision for a light rail line?!!!![:(!][|(][|(][|(][banghead][banghead]The nearest major railroad is the UP (ex-SP) line through Glenale. If you study a map closely, you have a pretty good idea of where I live.

Sincerely,
Daniel

[Jetrock]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AggroJones
PS-- Jetrock, have you seen the new RT lightrail cars? Looks like they're from the future.

Yeah, I saw them for the first time a year ago when I was scouting out where the old Sacramento Northern's Swanston branch line ran and stopped by RT's Swanston light rail servicing/testing facility. Then I saw 'em scuttling around in the middle of the night during the spring and summer while they were testing the cars and the new Meadowview line, now I see 'em all the time downtown. I haven't taken a ride on them yet but mean to do so Real Soon Now--especially because they go right threw the old WP "Jeffrey Shops" area by Sacramento City College (mostly torn out but there is still some old track used by Sac City's "Railroad Operation" classes!)

[AltonFan]

Where I live now, we only have an industrial park served by the UP.

Where I grew up, we had the Chicago & North Western, the Milwaukee Road, and the Soo Line. Then it was just the C&NW and the Soo Line. Eventually we got Wisconsin Central. We also had RTA and then Metra commuter service over the C&NW North West Line.

Today, they have Metra on both the North West Line and the North Central Line, the UP, CPR, and CNR.

[ClinchValleySD40]

CSX (ex Chessie) and CNIC (ex GTW) cross at grade in my town. Enough trains, but boring new power.

[Anonymous]

I live in the Dallas Metroplex and close by we have UP, BNSF,KCS,AMTRAK, the TRE.

RMax

[swknox]

Norfolk Southern's Delmarva Secondary (EX - Conrail) which runs through all of Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland. See website link below ( the one marked local site)

[coalminer3]

Former C&O branch runs by the house; former VGN mainline is about 5 miles away and former C&O mainline a little bit further. Lots of coal cars...

work safe

[Anonymous]

I live in the Kanas City metro area so I see BNSF, UP, NS, KCS, and probably some others, but here in eastern Jackson County that's what I see most of.

Ed

[Anonymous]

CSX Tampa. Once and a while there is something from UP.

[Anonymous]

Greensburg, Pa., is located at MP 322 of the original (Philadelphia-Pittsburgh) PRR mainline, 30+ miles East of Pittsburgh.
Once 4-tracked, 2 tracks now run between the twin platforms; Amtrak #40/41 Three Rivers and #43/44 Pennsylvanian each stop daily in both dircetions.

Currently owned by Norfolk Southern Corporation, we see between 45-75 trains a day. Altho NS is installing color-light signals throughout the area, there are STILL a set of "as-God-intended" PRR-style position-light signals visible from the Penn Station.

Just East of the station 'was' SW Junction, the connection to the PRR South Western branch, torn-out in the late '50s/early '60s. Formerly the site of 'SW Tower', the 'duck-under' is now part of a bicycle trail.

3 miles West of the station is 'CP RADE', the remaining connection to the SW branch. Now with color-light signals, in PRR-days, it was 'RG Tower'.

This branch is now operated by the South Western Pennsylvania (SWP) Railroad, running thru Youngwood, and also inter-changing with B&O (CSX) in Connellsville, Pa., and serves the SONY/USA TV-plant in New Stanton, Pa.

[Anonymous]

GT now CN.

[PistolPete]

Now it is the Gillford Lines or something like that, it use to be MEC
located in Readfield, Maine
GO PATRIOTS

[Anonymous]

I'm really lucky! I live in Tolono,Il-in the central part of the state. I can look out my front window and see, a half mile to the north, an east-west line on which I usually will see lots of UP and BNSF traffic--lots of intermodal! A half mile to the west is a north-south line, on which I get to see lots of CN,IC, NS, Wisconsin Central, and Amtrak. I even get to see some E,J, & E freight cars (one of the 4 lines I model). Now, if only my house were a little closer!

[BNSFNUT]

I have 3 railroads in my area. NS Southern Tier line, NYSW Binghamton/ Syracuse/ Utica line and CP's D&H line. The traffic is not heavy but enough to keep me on my toes with three railrad and CN trains on trackage rights. But it sometimes seems that when I have some time to railfan they stop all the trains. I have spent 3hrs line side and seen nothing or 15 min and seen 4 trains so I never know what I will find.

[Anonymous]

I grew up south of Minneapolis, MN in Bloomington. The rail line in this area was the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern. I think this was absorbed into the Soo Line and then Canadian Pacific or National. Now I live in Northern MN. I am 30 miles away from any rail. However, these rails are where the Northern Pacific and Great Northern shared trackage. This then became the Burlington Northern and is now the BNSF. There are lots of coal unit and container unit trains heading both ways. What is nice, is I am 39 miles away from Detroit Lakes where I can get on Amtrak around three in the morning heading in either direction and have done so. The west bound is only 20 minutes before the east bound.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hawks05

used to have a ton of CNW and UP freight trains go through. now we're down to probably 3-6 trains a day, all UP, and i hate UP.

Ahh someone else that feels exactly the same way I do. Glad to hear I'm not alone. [:D]